Research in Antarctica is not for everyone, not even those looking for extreme adventures in life, because the conditions here are extremely mentally and physically exhausting for the human body. In winter, the area is completely isolated for up to six months, with cold, long nights and of course a lot of research work. The workers here, for lack of a better word — because they can't walk or go to the movies — talk to each other a lot, which is… newly It led to a strange phenomenon. A new dialect of English was created, that is English in Antarctica.
Basic English
In the winter of 2018, a study revealed that Rothera, one of the largest research stations in Antarctica, had developed its own language among the 26 scientists working there. The new regional English that developed involuntarily resulted from two things: isolation and diversity of nationalities. Because of isolation, interactions with each other increased many times over, and multinationalism brought many varieties of the English language. Dialects or English as a foreign language, because in addition to Americans, participants included Scots, Welsh, Germans and Icelanders. Just think about Scottish English, there must be someone like Hungarian who understands it!
The English pronunciation of Germans and Icelanders is becoming increasingly similar to that of native English speakers.
Marlon Clarke is one of 26 researchers who worked at Rothera Station. Antarctica is so isolated, he says, that getting to someone on the International Space Station is faster than getting someone to the doctor from winter Antarctica. In their free time, they played pool and mostly talked, because satellite calls home would have been too expensive. But in the meantime, they also took part in a strange experiment: every few weeks, they made 10-minute recordings of the same 29 letters, which contain many vowels, regularly in their daily lives. Used word Repeat. These were basically expressions that differed in different dialects of English. When the recordings were examined, phonetic researchers at Germany's Ludwig Maximilians University discovered that the pronunciation of some words had changed slightly. This was the beginning of the development of the new dialect, which resulted from the fact that the speech of others affected the composition of everyone's voice.
Because the researchers had six months of lockdown, only minor changes occurred, but some vowels were definitely changed. For example, the sound “ou” changes its place of formation in words like a flow And the sewing. With the help of computational models, they investigated what happened to the English of those staying at the base. There were also audio recordings before the move, so there was a reference point from which to see the changes in the sound waves. There were almost inaudible differences, but for example the Welsh speaker's accent changed to a Liverpool (Scuse) accent. The English pronunciation of the German fellow is becoming more and more similar to the British pronunciation.
Multicultural peoples
The same thing happened on the Mayflower, when people of different nationalities came together to North America and formed the new American English. It was also created in the 1980s Anti-Money Laundering Law (Multicultural London English), Multicultural London English: The Cockney dialect of English was mixed with Jamaican English, Patois, and then other languages were added from among the nearly 300 languages spoken in London. One reason is that London has a large number of people who speak English as a second language. Many MLE speakers are native speakers or grew up using English and another language.
This phenomenon can also be observed in other large cities in Europe where there are many immigrants.
For example, a new type of German developed in Berlin, and a new Swedish dialect in Stockholm.
This can also be attributed to the coexistence of cultures, contact with many dialects and languages, learning second languages, and foreign words. In Antarctic English, not only has the dialect changed, but also a kind of colloquialism has developed with a specific, but by no means scientific, vocabulary.
In order to establish the new dialect or dialect, generations must be changed, so that children can imitate and preserve it. If Antarctic explorers had children, like the Mayflower passengers to America, the specific language would stabilize. Naturally, the question is, what are the odds that researchers' children will suddenly start falling into the world's harshest places? Unless paired directly they.
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